It has been a few years now since my mom reviewed Beth Ziarnik’s best-selling inspirational romantic suspense Her Deadly Inheritance. You can find the review here. So it is with great joy that now I get to review her latest novel, Her Deadly Reunion, A Jill Shepherd Suspense Book 2 a sequel to the first novel.

Jill Shepherd is one of those characters that seems to find herself in difficult situations involving family! She finally gets the chance to meet the father she’s never met and thought was dead. The invitation though to spend the Christmas holiday at his home is not the Norman Rockwell dream any of us would hope for. Her fiance is unable to join her at first. She’s turned away at the door and there’s a snowstorm! Once snuck inside by the devoted nurse, Alice, who extended the invitation, Jill is not met with gracious hospitality by the members of the household, but great disdain.

Her father is gravely ill and thrilled to meet his daughter. His other daughters and mother-in-law are not quite as welcoming. One is willing to embrace her into the family even though their father had an affair (which produced Jill) after their own mother became psychotic after the second child was born.

Soon Jill begins to believe that someone is trying to kill John, her father, and Alice, the private nurse nurtures that fear. When her fiance Clay finally arrives, events are escalating and soon accusations are flying about just who is trying to kill the family patriarch? And why?

This escalates the hostility and John Turner begs his youngest daughter, only recently reunited, to leave for fear that she is in danger, but just what kind of danger? Father is seeking to protect the daughter but the strong-willed daughter is bound and determined to save her father. Clay is trying to keep them all alive and out of jail in the process.

The author keeps you guessing just “who done it” and how, until the very end and once the mystery is resolved, faith blooms and reconciliation can occur… and just maybe a fresh new start for Jill and Clay.

This is a well-written sequel that is hard to put down, which meant I got to snuggle with my mom in her recliner and get lots of loving as she kept reading. For that reason, I give this book five bones, because I’m a dog and I don’t have thumbs.

Spatzle Baganz, book reviewer for the silygoos blog because that’s how we roll.